Adam Shaw

Adam Shaw is an award winning financial reporter and presenter. He is the business presenter of the BBC's flagship news and current affairs programme, the Today Programme which is listened to by 7 million people every day.

He won the Plain English Campaign award for Broadcaster of the year for his work in debunking the language used by business and finance. For two years running he was Proshare personality of the year for his work in reporting on the world of shares and investments.

Adam works often on BBC 1's 'The One Show' revealing and reporting on the different aspects on our lives of the current economic situation.

He is one of the best known financial faces on television. He currently presents BBC Radio 4's Today programme. He has also presented BBC 2's Working Lunch, BBC 1's Business Breakfast, Radio 5's Wake Up To Money and Radio 4's Financial World Tonight.

Before that he worked as a business reported for BSkyB and travelled extensively in Eastern Europe reporting on the growth of business there. He has also reported on businesses in Asia and Canada.

In addition to his work on television and radio, Adam has written for a number of newspapers including The Independent, The Mail on Sunday and Metro. He has written and co-authored a number of books: Political Rhubarb, Money and How To Make More Of It, Managing Credit and Investing Basics.

Outside of the world of business he presented: Tutus and Tiaras - A year in the life of the English National Ballet and The Dame Game - a behind the scenes look at pantomime and its history.

Adam also chairs conferences and seminars and is a highly skilled conference facilitator and after dinner speaker. He has a wealth of experience hosting events and award ceremonies, both at home and abroad.   

Testimonials:

Transport for London, Enterprise: London Launch Event 2007 
"On behalf of Transport for London and the whole of the Enterprise team, we would like to thank you for your involvement at the launch of Enterprise recently. Your contribution was invaluable and helped to make the event a resounding success. Thank you once more and we hope to be able to work with you again in the near future."

Banking Dinner & Awards
"The event went really well and Adam was great! He was extremely calm and professional, and showed a very funny video! Please pass on my direct thanks to him, it was lovely to meet him and he was a pleasure to work with."

Conference on Banking
"Adam was brilliant. He did a fantastic job on the three road shows and just gelled with our speakers instantly and he's clearly very knowledgeable about the industry, which made him easy to work with. In the future we would definitely use Adam again."